Seven of the escort were killed, the rest reached Fort Saint David in safety.

Pigot's report of Clive's conduct, strengthened by that previously made by Major Lawrence, induced the authorities to transfer him permanently to the army.

He received a commission as captain and was sent off, with a small detachment remaining at Saint David's, to Devikota.
"There he placed himself under Captain Clarke, who commanded; and the whole body, numbering altogether a hundred English, fifty Sepoys, with a small field piece, marched up to Trichinopoli, and I hear managed to make its way in safety.

He got in about a month ago." "And what force have we altogether, here and at Saint David's, in case Trichinopoli falls ?" "What with the detachment that came with you, and two others which arrived about ten days back, we have altogether about three hundred and fifty men.

What on earth could these do against all the force of the nawab, the subadar, and three or four thousand French troops ?" The prospect certainly seemed gloomy in the extreme, and the young writers retired to their beds, on this, the first night of their arrival in India, with the conviction that circumstances were in a desperate position.
The next day they set to work, and at its end agreed that they should bear the loss of their situations, and their expulsion from the country, with more than resignation.